Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a… — Tim Bevan Copy Share Image
It's not so much that I enjoy screenwriting, though mostly I do, but the difference is, with adaptations, somebody else has done… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Fiction and screenwriting blend for me. I feel like being a TV writer/screenwriter has definitely made my fiction writing better, although I… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
I was about 14 when I started with a theater group; it was like a stage group on the weekends alongside school.… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
I've often said, not totally jokingly, that screenwriting doesn't really qualify as real writing at all. You don't string sentences into paragraphs.… — Jonathan Raymond Copy Share Image
As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural. A lot of the time,… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I just stopped playing. I did some screenwriting and got into the nature thing. Music kind of went away. — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
I was always writing stories, even as a kid. I always wanted to be in the plays and do that sort of… — Katie Wech Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary"… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide. — Brian Koppelman Copy Share Image
Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
